Phone Records Shared With U.K.

Daily Beast ^ | 06.07.13 | Eli Lake

[Perdogg]

At least one foreign government has gained access to sensitive data collected by the National Security Agency from U.S. telecommunications companies in dragnet court warrants demanding the secret transfer of U.S. customers’ calling records.

[ConservativeMan55]

I’m not even sure what to say at this point..

I would say I’m shocked but nothing this Administration does shocks me.

Remember when Clinton was selling secrets to China?

[BykrBayb]

I was just trying to watch a video, and it started with an ad for The Verizon Share Everything Plan. What are they thinking?

[Paladin2]

I,m sure Obama would be happy to share the dat with Hamas and al Qaeda.

[ConservativeMan55]

He probably didn’t even charge them for it.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The NSA frequently came to our campus to recruit in the 1980’s. It was the general consensus that they had access to everybody’s phone calls, and could pretty much eavesdrop on us at-will.

The usual story was that we let the Brits spy on our people domestically, while we did the same to Her Majesty’s Subjects. Then we’d just exchange the intel.

[Black Agnes]

He probably already has.

[Hardraade]

Lovely.

Sharing universal phonetaps with a country that really has no freedom of speech whatsoever and is poular with muslims doing libel lawfare.

[Hardraade]

That is essentially what he has been doing, actually...

[tanknetter]

The usual story was that we let the Brits spy on our people domestically, while we did the same to Her Majesty’s Subjects. Then we’d just exchange the intel.

Yes - I mentioned on a different thread the other day that I'd parused a book called "Those Angry Days" about the fight between FDR and America First (focusing on Charles Lindbergh) prior to Pearl Harbor. Part of it dealt with FDR ok'ing the Brits spying on Americans here in the US ...

[bgill]

At least one...

[SIRTRIS]

Where’s the ACLU in all this?

[ScottinVA]

Sounds like the NSA must have goat pics on Pansy Graham and Saxby Chambliss. Shame on them for going along with this.

And still... Obama is untouched by any of these scandals...

I’ve become so disgusted with this country, it’s beyond words.

[Paradox]

You know, there were some on here that warned of the potential abuses of the Patriot act. Most probably scoffed, I know that I kinda rolled my eyes at the time....

Those people were right. Those libertarian types were right..

[liberalh8ter]

I'm waiting for Obama to come forward and tell us all that collecting our data and sharing it with foreign governments is keeping us safe while the feckless journalists (a.k.a. Cheerleaders) sit silent and forgo pointing out that Muslims are walking across the border. It's the only act missing from the Keystone Cop, Kabuki theater mash up.

[shanover]

Sigh for America;I am also saddened and disgusted.Collectively,nobody cares.Most Americans heads are you know where and/or just trying to live day by day.

[liberalh8ter]

That’s just it. A flourishing economy gives people time to pay attention to what the political elite are up to while struggling to make it day to day keeps us busy enough to ignore D.C. There’s only incentive to keep us focused on survival.

[C210N]

And still... Obama is untouched by any of these scandals...

I’ve become so disgusted with this country, it’s beyond words.

It almost goes without saying, the sheeple are fine with things. Today's Ras is -8, an 8 point swing from the -16 of June 3.

[Piranha]

People are forgetting that this government has identified Tea Partiers, gun control advocates and other conservatives as “terrorists”. When we read that the phone spying efforts were aimed at rooting out terrorists and their networks, I do not think that the government thinks that “terrorist” means what we think it means. I think that they wanted to monitor US calling patterns to identify conservatives and their allies.

[ScottinVA]

It almost goes without saying, the sheeple are fine with things. Today's Ras is -8, an 8 point swing from the -16 of June 3.

Yep... the steeptards are quite comfortable with shackles. They give a sense of "security."